Playing music just got easier.
Find playable chords, transpositions and progressions that work for your song.
Song Chart Maker
Turn a song's chord progression into playable chord diagrams for your tuning and capo position.
Build chord charts for a song
Transpose ABC
Transpose a tune and its chords to any key. Keep the original mode and its musical spelling.
Open transposerChords for every instrument
Keep your songs. Pick up anywhere.
Sign in to save your chord charts and open them on any device. It's free, and there's no password to remember.
- Save your songs with their tuning, capo and the shapes you chose, and reopen them from My songs.
- Share a song by making it public. Anyone with the link can view it, play it and print it.
- Settings that follow you: playback, diagrams and your theme, on every device.
- No password. Sign in with a code sent to your email, a passkey or Google.
Less time charting. More time playing.
Free tools for musicians who play from chord charts, lead sheets and tune books.
Most of the music people actually play never sees a printed score. It lives on chord charts taped to mic stands, in ABC tunes traded at sessions, and on lyric sheets with chords scribbled over the words. Sparrowlight takes care of the prep work around that music, quickly and accurately, so you can get to the playing.
Start with Song Chart Maker. Type a song's chords and get shapes you can play on your instrument, in your tuning, with your capo. Then let Suggest find a set that flows smoothly from one change to the next. Save the chart, share a link, or print it for the gig. Need a tune in another key? Transpose ABC moves it without breaking its mode, so a dorian reel stays a dorian reel.
More tools are on the way, including lyric sheets with chords. Every one follows the same rules: get the theory right, keep it playable, and keep it free in your browser.
Built for players
- Guitar, Ukulele, Mandolin and Banjo players
- Chord shapes you can actually reach, in standard, open or your own custom tuning, with or without a capo.
- Folk and traditional musicians
- ABC tunes in the key your instrument or session needs, with their modes intact.
- Songwriters, band leaders and teachers
- Clean, readable charts to print, share or hand out at rehearsal or the next lesson.